Bengali News (বাংলা খবর): Read latest Bangla news covering 24 ghanta bengali news, politics, business, tollywood bangla khobor, cricket, football, lifestyle, education, entertainment and more on Zee 24 Ghanta. Bengali (বাংলা) Bengali is an eastern Indo-Aryan language spoken mainly in Bangladesh and northern Indian. There are about 250 million native speakers of Bengali , and another 41 million people speak it as a second language. Bengali , or Bangla, is an Indo-Aryan language spoken predominantly in Bangladesh and in the Indian states of West Bengal and Tripura by approximately 250 million speakers. Chôlito bhasha (চলিত ভাষা "running language"), known by linguists as Standard Colloquial Bengali , is a written Bengali style exhibiting a preponderance of colloquial idiom and shortened verb forms and is the standard for written Bengali now.